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Immune system overreactions may be the true culprit of cardiac illness—and lifesaving drugs can calm them down

Modern luxury watches can be traced back to one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sisters

Binoculars and other far-range optics span a gamut of price points. Here’s what separates top-tier from entry-level

At Givaudan and IFF, chemists build—and safeguard—new aroma molecules tightly linked to emotion and memory

The Diffie-Hellman key exchange secures everything from your text messages to government secrets

How the discovery of altermagnets could change physics and computing

Creatine does help build muscle, but social media claims for methylene blue dye are way overblown

Sometimes innovation can be traced back to bizarre places: a muddy streambed, a volcanic ash field or even a hotel-company boardroom

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction

Science in meter and verse

The SciFy program tests whether adversaries’ most outlandish scientific claims add up or fall apart

Scientists have designed a new kind of paradoxical shape